News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The German army will completely switch to the new infantry machine guns. April 1, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the German Defense Ministry approved new purchases of the MG5 machine gun.

The next Avangard complex will be delivered to the troops this year, Alexander Leonov, General Director and General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, told reporters on the sidelines of the academic readings on cosmonautics on Friday.

As reported by the Ministry of Defense of Serbia, Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Defense Nebojsa Stefanovic on March 20 took part in the signing of the military department with the company Yugoimport-SDPR contract for the purchase of a new batch of BBM "Lazar-3" with a wheel formula of 8x8.

According to the newspaper" Kommersant "in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva and Alexander Dremlyugin, Rostec will part with the" Sea". The Crimean shipyard will be transferred to USC , and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will include another shipyard - the Feodosiya Sea, which now belongs to Rostec. The timing and mechanism of the transfer are still unknown.

General Director of NPO Mashinostroyeniya Alexander Leonov said that there are export orders for "Condors"

The launches of the Condor-FKA radar satellites are scheduled for 2022 and 2023. This was announced on Friday by the General Director, General Designer of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya (part of the corporation " Tactical Missile Weapons") Alexander Leonov.

As reported by the TASS news agency on March 31, 2021, specialists of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) in Severodvinsk completed an operation to unload the core of a nuclear reactor from the AS-31 underwater habitable vehicle (unofficial name "Losharik"). This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun a control check of the forces stationed in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory during the winter training period. This was reported by the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

The organization "Signal", part of the concern "Automation" of the state corporation "Rostec", robotized welding processes at the enterprise. This was reported on April 2 by the correspondent of "RIA Novosti".

In April, the crew of the new diesel submarine "Magadan", which is built for the Pacific Fleet (TOF) of Russia, will arrive in St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

The event will be held in June

The organizers of the Global Conference on Space Exploration, which will be held in June in St. Petersburg, sent an invitation to the event to the head of SpaceX, Elon Musk. This was stated by the executive director of the International Astronautical Federation Christian Feichtinger at a press conference on Friday.

Currently, the paper stage of developing technical proposals for funds that can be included in the NAZ is underway, said the executive director of the state Corporation for Manned space programs.

A wireless system for monitoring the state of silo launchers with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) is being developed in Russia, according to the materials of the Royal Readings on Cosmonautics, available to RIA Novosti.

The project of the American space corporation SpaceX to regularly launch small satellites at a single price using Falcon 9 rockets will begin to make a profit by the end of the first year. This conclusion was reached by specialists of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, who studied the initiative of Elon Musk's company, RIA Novosti reports.

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower ("Dwight Eisenhower"), having passed the Suez Canal, entered the Red Sea, which is part of the area of responsibility of the US Central Command, the Egyptian information site Cairo24 reported.

The special purpose regiment of the Southern Military District in the Stavropol Territory was one of the first to receive a batch of 300 new Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifles, said the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev. The AK-12 differs from the AK-74 submachine guns currently in service by its increased accuracy of fire and barrel survivability. Improved ergonomics of the weapon increased the ease of use.

Russian warships conducted live-fire exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Fleet said on Saturday.

The Russian military satellite "Kosmos-2525" descended from near-Earth orbit and burned up in the atmosphere, TASS reports, referring to the Command of the Aerospace Defense of North America.

An interesting photo of a front-line Su-34 bomber with ten simulated aircraft bombs suspended at once (IAB, a nuclear bomb simulator) was found in a presentation posted in open access to the 60th anniversary of the FSUE "Russian Federal Nuclear Center-All - Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E. I. Zababakhin "(FSUE " RFNC-VNIITF im. Academician E. I. Zababakhin", Snezhinsk, formerly Chelyabinsk-70, Chelyabinsk region).

In the Network there was a video from the large exercises of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Altai Territory. For the first time, mobile ICBM launchers "Yars" were used in the maneuvers and the microwave gun of the remote mine-clearing vehicle "Foliage"was used.

The British rocket artillery will hit further and more accurately. April 3, portal defence-blog.com He reported that the British Ministry of Defense has begun to modernize its MLRS.